{"id":654,"date":"2015-02-19T09:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-02-21T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T02:26:59","slug":"local-politics-update-2015-02-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/19\/local-politics-update-2015-02-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Politics Update &#8211; 2015-02-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Always something happening in and around Greater Lafayette.\u00a0 Here are some of my updates for West Lafayette and beyond.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Action Opportunities<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Exploratory Committee is gathering again on February 26th at the West Lafayette Public Library from 6-8PM.\u00a0 We will be discussing the local municipal elections, government transparency, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshineweek.org\/\">Sunshine Week programming.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbaa.org\/programs\/ask-mayor\" target=\"_blank\">Ask the Mayor<\/a> is today with Mayor McBarnes from Frankfort.\u00a0 You can e-mail (<a href=\"mailto:ask@wbaa.org\" target=\"_blank\">ask@wbaa.org<\/a>), Tweet (@wbaanews), or call in your questions <a href=\"tel:%28765-494-5920\" target=\"_blank\">(765-494-5920<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategic Plan for West Lafayette Update: \u00a0As mentioned in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlafayette.in.gov\/egov\/docs\/14242050859322.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">West Lafayette Connection<\/a>, the City will be updating its Strategic Plan and looking for input. Don&#8217;t wait to be asked.\u00a0 You can read the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westlafayette.in.gov\/egov\/docs\/1266595056_635864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2010 version here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafayettebikeandped.com\/?page_id=14\" target=\"_blank\">Lafayette Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Public Presentation<\/a> is also on the February 26th at 6PM. I would love it if we could get a report from those who choose to attend. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0BzbnhF9iY6NbfkpJMWNnd29TT3h2LWctRmNaRFEzZG96N2ZQVjFYSXlaMTVVUUpNb2VpOFk&amp;authuser=0\" target=\"_blank\">You can read the draft plans here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><del>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tippecanoe.in.gov\/egov\/apps\/document\/center.egov?view=item;id=12993\">Smitty&#8217;s Sign Variance BZA meeting is February 25th, 7pm<\/a><\/del>.\u00a0 (<strong>The Family Express petition has been continued until next month&#8217;s meeting<\/strong>). If you cannot attend in person, please write a letter\/e-mail to the BZA in your stead.\u00a0 You can reach them at apc@tippecanoe.in.gov.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If you know of more, as I am sure you do, please let me know and I can add them here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always something happening in and around Greater Lafayette.\u00a0 Here are some of my updates for West Lafayette and beyond. Action Opportunities The Exploratory Committee is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,78],"tags":[145,143,144,107,106,141],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-participatory-culture","category-politics","tag-gatherings","tag-local-election","tag-local-politics","tag-polilala","tag-politics-2","tag-the-exploratory-committee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}